Officers testify about alleged truck attack on barbecue

OROVILLE — Police officers testified Friday about the investigation into an attack last May 24 in which a pickup was allegedly driven into a group barbecuing outside a Chico apartment.

The testimony was part of the trial for brothers Larry and Marcelino Siordia. Larry Cortes Siordia is charged in Butte County Superior Court with a felony count of assault with a deadly weapon and Marcelino Omar Siordia faces a felony count of being an accessory after the fact.

Under questioning by deputy district attorney Marc Noel, Chico police officer Steven Hogue testified he interviewed Terrell Berry at Enloe Medical Center. Berry said he had some body pains and small abrasions after allegedly being struck by a red pickup driven by Larry Siordia.

The defense has asserted the truck didn't strike Berry.

On Thursday, Berry testified he was sitting in a lawn chair outside an apartment on the 800 block of Rancheria Drive when he saw a red pickup head toward his group. He said he braced himself just before the truck struck him and threw him toward the apartment.

Hogue said Berry told him a blue pickup, allegedly driven by Marcelino Siordia, stopped near the apartment. The driver allegedly got out and told Berry to come here and used profanity and a racial epithet.

On Thursday, Berry had recalled the confrontation but didn't mention the slur.

Chico police officer Peter Durfee testified about investigating Larry Siordia's red pickup that crashed after the defendant was shot while exiting the property. Marcelino Siordia reportedly took his brother to the hospital for emergency treatment.